If you own a small business, blogging is a great way to become part of an active community that revolves around your products and services. Networking has always been and will always be key to staying informed and up-to-date in your niche, whatever it is. In the old days, networking consisted of phone calls, community meetings and activities that were all face-to-face. These days, however, the globalization that has taken place over the past two decades has changed this landscape somewhat. Now,...

I was browsing my blog today because I like to emulate my visitors experience occasionally so as to verify functionality and usability. For some reason, I decided to click on my RSS feed just to see how it looked and to make sure that it was indeed valuable to the site. As it turns out, an RSS feed is indeed valuable because of the fact that it allows me to syndicate my blog posts to the world. Syndication, of course, is a great thing because it allows you to reach your readers at their convenience...

I have been experimenting lately and I wanted to share something I have tried on my blog. I now require anyone who comments on my blog to sign up for my newsletter. I did this because of the sheer magnitude of spam comments I have been receiving lately. I found myself spending the majority of my comment review time removing bogus comments vomited onto my blog by bots and other types of software. This was even after my spam protection services filtered out three quarters of the spam comments to begin...

If you have a website, odds are you are wishing that it had better search engine placement. Well, there are things that you can do to build it up and make it more relevant in the eyes of search engines and visitors. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) holds the key to better search engine placement and ultimately, more quality traffic.

There are many ways to drive traffic to your site, but none have the ability to drive targeted traffic like search engines do. For that reason, a wise...

It is the goal of every webmaster or blogger to use every means at their disposal to draw and drive as much traffic to their website or blog as possible. Let's face it. Keywords are the same as in-roads. The only difference is, these in-roads are virtual ones and are all inter-connected with the information super-highway. Naturally, some roads have more traffic than others. In the same fashion, some keywords naturally see more traffic than others. In the world of online-search, clicks come in two...